Re: OT: keyboard/cursor/caret problem

Tom de Neef wrote:

Perhaps as you're typing your thumb or palm is brushing against the touchpad below the space bar. I think most laptop BIOS configuration programs let you disable the touchpad altogether. The mouse control panel might have some way for you to adjust the sensitivity. I think some brands even have a feature that tells it to ignore events from the touchpad while you're typing.


So simple! (But I must say that my very first reaction to your answer was: come on Rob, I'm not that stupid.)

Once I had another strange effect on my system, where (certain) keystrokes were "eaten". The explanation was hard to find, but also simple: the batteries in my wireless keyboard were almost exhausted...

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